Gaming Burnout

[Soviet Heavy]

It's happened to everyone here at least once. You play a game so much that after time, you just get sick of it, and move onto other games. Multiplayer and RPGs are big offenders for me.

Probably the biggest one however has been Team Fortress 2. I got it back in 2009, and played for probably a year and a half heavily. After that, I went into the burnout phase, and get into finishing up some strategy and singleplayer games.

But unlike other games where I do a burnout, I have had an extremely hard time getting back into TF2. The constantly changing and updating the game receives made it practically alien to me, except I don't have the new game whimsy to keep me going. I didn't adapt, and I just wasn't having fun anymore.

Another game that I burned out on was Minecraft. This one was also because of the updates, but since I mostly played singleplayer, a lot of the changes just upset my comfort style, or were poorly implemented. I haven't played it in months, though I'm considering trying some mods to see if I can find something superior to Mojang's stuff.

What games have you done a burnout on? How did you cope? And did you ever find it hard going back to a game you hadn't played in months?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Yeah, I burned out on Minecraft too.

Notch added too much useless crap to the game, and it keeps bugging me, so I just don't play it anymore.

 

[jokaero]

The only game I really play now is Call of Duty, Dark Souls, and Dwarf Fortress. I tend to play one, then get burned out on one, so I move onto the other. It's a cycle.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Yeah it sucks huh? I burnt out on Skyrim in about late December/early January, havent really touched it since. Still im definately planning to pick it up again after Dawnguard comes out though. Similar sort of thing at the moment with Mass Effect 3, I've played through it 3 times and I havent touched it in weeks. Still I just keep the games around for when I feel like playing them, I find that you miss the game the most as soon as you get rid of it.

But that doesnt really answer your question huh? I just play new, different games for a while, eventually I get the urge to go back and play some old ones

 

[Rangarig]

Gaming burnout has hit me frequently already. Sometimes it is a specific game, sometimes a gaming system, sometimes it is games in general, where I feel like throwing the whole box out of the window and go do something else.

The worst gaming burnout for me has been Ultima Online. I used to be an avid and quite addicted player of UO, mostly in terms of role-playing (Europa shard, for those who care). But as time went by and after going through extensive and rather volatile arguments with some members of the rp community, I was just sick of it. UO as a game had changed so much, because EA was trying to compete with World of Warcraft and Everquest, thereby limiting or destroying what made UO unique. I was fed up with the people and the community constructs that had been established over the years. I quit, cancelled my subscriptions and gave all my pixel-crack (read: in-game possessions) away to friends.

Although I have tried to go back to UO a few times over the years, whenever I do, the same feelings overwhelm me as when I quit the first time. I am unable to reconnect with the game or the community. If it was free-to-play it might be less painful, but the thought of paying for it disgusts me nowadays.

In relation to other games, there are two factors that kill things for me: similarity between games AND bugs. Since every other RPG is the same as the one I'm playing right now, what varies is the stories (slightly) and the setting. And when you invest 10 hours into Fallout 3 and suddenly taking more than 10 steps keeps crashing the game, I get really tired of it all.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Yeah it sucks huh? I burnt out on Skyrim in about late December/early January, havent really touched it since. Still im definately planning to pick it up again after Dawnguard comes out though. Similar sort of thing at the moment with Mass Effect 3, I've played through it 3 times and I havent touched it in weeks. Still I just keep the games around for when I feel like playing them, I find that you miss the game the most as soon as you get rid of it.

But that doesnt really answer your question huh? I just play new, different games for a while, eventually I get the urge to go back and play some old ones

The big issue for me is space. I only have 320 GB on my comp, and it's partitioned in two, so all my Steam Games go into one partition, and I don't have enough space for all of them. So if I am sick of one game, then I need to decide whether I should keep it on in case I want to go back, or uninstall it to open up more room for other games. Makes it a hassle to go back to other titles, and it's been keeping me from trying out TF2 again.

I dunno. Once I get a new Desktop, maybe I'll try it again, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Yeah it sucks huh? I burnt out on Skyrim in about late December/early January, havent really touched it since. Still im definately planning to pick it up again after Dawnguard comes out though. Similar sort of thing at the moment with Mass Effect 3, I've played through it 3 times and I havent touched it in weeks. Still I just keep the games around for when I feel like playing them, I find that you miss the game the most as soon as you get rid of it.

But that doesnt really answer your question huh? I just play new, different games for a while, eventually I get the urge to go back and play some old ones

The big issue for me is space. I only have 320 GB on my comp, and it's partitioned in two, so all my Steam Games go into one partition, and I don't have enough space for all of them. So if I am sick of one game, then I need to decide whether I should keep it on in case I want to go back, or uninstall it to open up more room for other games. Makes it a hassle to go back to other titles, and it's been keeping me from trying out TF2 again.

I dunno. Once I get a new Desktop, maybe I'll try it again, but I'm not holding my breath.

So there is a weakness in the PC master race? I must inform my console brethren immediately!

In all seriousness why dont you just take a break from gaming then? Sometimes its exactly the thing you need

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Yeah it sucks huh? I burnt out on Skyrim in about late December/early January, havent really touched it since. Still im definately planning to pick it up again after Dawnguard comes out though. Similar sort of thing at the moment with Mass Effect 3, I've played through it 3 times and I havent touched it in weeks. Still I just keep the games around for when I feel like playing them, I find that you miss the game the most as soon as you get rid of it.

But that doesnt really answer your question huh? I just play new, different games for a while, eventually I get the urge to go back and play some old ones

The big issue for me is space. I only have 320 GB on my comp, and it's partitioned in two, so all my Steam Games go into one partition, and I don't have enough space for all of them. So if I am sick of one game, then I need to decide whether I should keep it on in case I want to go back, or uninstall it to open up more room for other games. Makes it a hassle to go back to other titles, and it's been keeping me from trying out TF2 again.

I dunno. Once I get a new Desktop, maybe I'll try it again, but I'm not holding my breath.

So there is a weakness in the PC master race? I must inform my console brethren immediately!

In all seriousness why dont you just take a break from gaming then? Sometimes its exactly the thing you need

I've been considering it. I'm between jobs and living in a city where I don't know many people, so that probably explains my tired look on games at the moment, since I've been playing them to pass the time. Maybe work on writing or something. Just shake things up to get me out of a slump.

 

[Fappy]

I get it all the time. More recently with Skyrim and ME3 co-op. I can't bring myself to even put the disks in.

 

[unbreakable212]

Yeah happens frequently. WoW used to be a regular offender/victim of me getting burnt out. I'd deactive my account and take a 6 month break and end up coming back.

Recently it's been skyrim, after throwing god knows how many hours into it, I can't be bothered to play it.

 

[Dandark]

I get hit by gaming burnout a lot nowadays. I still haven't gone back to Skyrim yet and I recently burnt out on Dark souls because **** YOU ANOR LONDO ARCHERS!

The one game I haven't burnt out on yet which has surprised me is LoL. I have been playing that a lot yet I am still playing it regularly and enjoying it.

 

[DustyDrB]

I just remembered I actually bought Minecraft 2-3 years ago. It has probably changed a ton since then. But it didn't take me long at all to burn out on it. "Go and do whatever" games can be very hard for me to get into.

I get it all the time. More recently with Skyrim and ME3 co-op. I can't bring myself to even put the disks in.

I think they just had a N7 operation fail [http://blog.bioware.com/2012/05/16/operation-silencer-update/] for the first time. I quit playing that too, but to prevent burnout more than actually already being burnt out. Since I know I'm going to want to replay the game a ton, I don't want the co-op to spoil the main game for me.

And I always burn out on Elder Scrolls games. This is why I don't do full playthroughs of them, but sort of mid-sized ones that take me through a few quest lines (and I end up around the mid 20s-30 in character level).

Whenever I burn out in Oblivion, I have one final stand. I strip my character completely and try to see how long I can hold out fighting everyone in a city with my fists. It's my own personal tradition with the game.

 

[Fappy]

I just remembered I actually bought Minecraft 2-3 years ago. It has probably changed a ton since then. But it didn't take me long at all to burn out on it. "Go and do whatever" games can be very hard for me to get into.

I get it all the time. More recently with Skyrim and ME3 co-op. I can't bring myself to even put the disks in.

I think they just had a N7 operation fail [http://blog.bioware.com/2012/05/16/operation-silencer-update/] for the first time. I quit playing that too, but to prevent burnout more than actually already being burnt out. Since I know I'm going to want to replay the game a ton, I don't want the co-op to spoil the main game for me.

And I always burn out on Elder Scrolls games. This is why I don't do full playthroughs of them, but sort of mid-sized ones that take me through a few quest lines (and I end up around the mid 20s-30 in character level).

Whenever I burn out in Oblivion, I have one final stand. I strip my character completely and try to see how long I can hold out fighting everyone in a city with my fists. It's my own personal tradition with the game.

Wow yeah, whenever I get bored with a TES game I round it off with a killing rampage as well. I wonder if this is common >.>

 

[George_Harvey_Bone]

Wow yeah, whenever I get bored with a TES game I round it off with a killing rampage as well. I wonder if this is common >.>

I imagine it's very common. If I were an NPC in a sandbox game, then I'd run for the hills if I saw the Player Character wandering around looking a bit jaded...

 

[Catfood220]

I suffer with it game burnout quite a bit, my last play through of Deus Ex: Human Revolution got tedious towards the end and I have no intention of playing that again anytime soon even if I love the same and I wish I hadn't played the good and evil play throughs of Infamous 2 back to back, that got tedious too.

I think I'm reaching my limit on Tales of Graces f, I kinda want to play something simple like LittleBigPlanet or Fifa.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

I have gaming Burnout with Deus Ex H.R. at the moment. I don't know what it is. Whenever I forced myself to play it I had an enjoyable time but everytime I had to think about it and everytime it felt so intimidating for some reason. Or no reason actually, I don't know why I developed this feeling because I think the game is great. Haven't played it in quite a few months.

Also, Final Fantasy 12 because of gold farming. I actually enjoyed the grinding but the gold farming was a *****. haven't played it in over year.

 

[Weaver]

I just develop gaming burnout in general sometimes. January and February of this year I didn't play a single game, and I feel that way now.

 

[Slaanesh]

I always have game burnouts, but they usually last for a few months. I'll play TF2 a lot for 4 months or so, get sick of it, play Retribution for 3 months or so, get sick of it, play Serious Sam 3, then New Vegas, etc. Eventually I'll be right back to TF2 to repeat the cycle.

Meanwhile I'll have over 100 games I bought on sale and won't touch(seriously, I spent like $60 for them all together). Fucking impulse purchases.

 

[Kalikin]

**** YOU ANOR LONDO ARCHERS!

Combine the Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring and the Chameleon sorcery. The archer to the left shouldn't notice you at all, and the one blocking your path shouldn't notice you until you get into melee range. The first time I played (without using that method) they must have killed me fifteen times before I got past them. Second playthrough, did it on my first try. It was awesome.

OT: I played Minecraft almost nonstop for a week. After I'd built a few bridges, connected my houses with cobblestone roads and leveled a hill or two, it was kind of meh. I really need some kind of objective to play... Also, Skyrim. Played for about 150 hours and now I don't want to look at it.

 

[Guffe]

Super Smash Bros Melee, played through the whole winter with my friends a few years back (and in Finland winters aren't short).